In my previous two articles i mentioned about the "Value of Moment" and "Trying to sit on chair". Today got me to think of the last words i said in the article "Trying to sit on chair" which is ACTION. If we look at the word ACT the thought that comes into my mind is that it is an abbreviation. ACT according to me stands for the following: (here i am stealing the words from SPIRITUALITY :) )
A - Awake / Alert (its a State of Mind)
C - Create (an OUTPUT from the previous letter A)
T - Transform (an OUTCOME from the previous letter C)
Lets look at the 1st letter A which denotes the State of Mind to be Awakened or Alert. How can this happen to a normal human being. This is possible when one is Aware of the VALUE OF MOMENT. If one starts to be just present to the fact that each moment that passes by is lost forever, then our Mind will be always Alert.
Once a Mind is Alert and is aware of the "Value of Moment", it becomes Creative because each moment offer innumerous possibilities or paths to the ever changing situations. No two moments are the same. The feelings, the thoughts and the actions are different. Even though superficially the situations may occur same from the surface, the way our mind works is always different. Only an alert mind can be present to this change or difference.
Hence the human mind is most Creative when it is in a high state of alertness or awakened. This causes the mind to look at things differently and even when situations seem very desperate, this mind is able to come out with ideas that normally would not have been generated. When i say desperate, it is not necessary that its a question of life and death and not necessarily for oneself. Sometimes my alert mind has actually created an idea or new path that it has impacted others in their state of desperation. If we look deeper in our life's we can see for ourselves many such incidents which we have gone through.
This creativity generated from our mind comes out as Ideas in Words, which shows a new path for someone else which actually gets them to start looking at the situation differently and make them take actions which actually impact their life. This I call as Transformation. And Transformation is real. This happens in time, space and distance.
Transformation according to me is not something that will happen someday by doing the some actions. For me its a re-birth of oneself where in the Outcome is so different that no one would have thought of this being possible and real.
Also one small thing that happens in the background of ACT are the context and the intentions. I will share more about this later.... :)
What say?? Your opinions please.
TRY SITTING ON A CHAIR
How many times in life we say, I am TRYING. But ever wondered what TRYING means? It means nothing.
Do this game.
Take a chair and keep it in the center of a room. The try to sit on the chair. Remember you should not be STANDING near the chair nor be SEATED on the chair. So what am I doing??
Then what is TRYING? There is no such thing called as TRYING.
When ever we say we are TRYING, we are in the domain of inaction. There is no definite action happening. Also there is no clear path for us to achieve something. Rather than doing something half-heartedly, its better to think and set in a plan with actions to be taken to achieve and get done with the work. After that its all about being in ACTION.
TRY SITTING ON A CHAIR...
Do this game.
Take a chair and keep it in the center of a room. The try to sit on the chair. Remember you should not be STANDING near the chair nor be SEATED on the chair. So what am I doing??
Then what is TRYING? There is no such thing called as TRYING.
When ever we say we are TRYING, we are in the domain of inaction. There is no definite action happening. Also there is no clear path for us to achieve something. Rather than doing something half-heartedly, its better to think and set in a plan with actions to be taken to achieve and get done with the work. After that its all about being in ACTION.
Value of a MOMENT
Ever wondered whats the value of a Moment? Ask a person on his death bed or a person who is seeing his death every moment from the time he knows he may die between now and NOW. Remember the movie ANAND... where he sees his death every moment. This thought just came to my mind. If we live our lives as if we have just one moment to live, how would we live it?
Would we then be so self centered around our EGO? Would we have ego fights with the people around us? Would we spend time about criticising about things in life? Would we complain about how unfair life has been to us? Would we spend time running about making money and becoming more powerful physically or otherwise?
Or would we like to spend that moment, making an impact on others which transforms their life? Or look and appriceate things around us and be thankful to God for being able to do so? Or enjoy the moment and feel blessed for being alive in that Moment??
Any thoughts?
Would we then be so self centered around our EGO? Would we have ego fights with the people around us? Would we spend time about criticising about things in life? Would we complain about how unfair life has been to us? Would we spend time running about making money and becoming more powerful physically or otherwise?
Or would we like to spend that moment, making an impact on others which transforms their life? Or look and appriceate things around us and be thankful to God for being able to do so? Or enjoy the moment and feel blessed for being alive in that Moment??
Any thoughts?
Gowri Ganesha - Eco Friendly Celebrations
These days its the Festive Season and Gowri Ganesha Festival (written the way it is said in Kannada) at its peak. With the preparations in full swings at everyones home, my mom told me a way they celebrated the Festival in her home town.
This year Gowri as well as Ganesha celebrations came on the same day. But mostly Gowri celebrations happen atleast a Day earlier than Ganesha Festival.
So on the Gowri celebrations day, the ladies and girls of the village would go to the river bed early morning and the Priest of the Village temple would conduct the initial pooja (Sankalpa / Sankalp as it is called). After the Sankalpa, the ladies and girls would 1st pray to the river and then from the bed of the river collect wet sand and tie it in a cloth. This would symbolise Gowri. With appropriate salutaions and pooja they would take this Gowri to their homes and worship her.
In some houses, Gowri would be made of Turmeric. They would dissolve turmeric powder and create small triangular shaped object and atoint it with red kumkum at the center.
For Ganesha, the men and boys would also go to the river bed the next day early morning. There the same Sankalpa would happen, and then they would pick up the wet clay from the river bed and each household would create Ganesha from the clay. After that they would take this to their homes as Ganesha for worship. However the interesting part was, since these Ganeshas were hand made, most of the households would keep Ganesha for just a day, so that the Clay does not dry up too much and there are no cracks. Because, in Hinduism Gods Idols have to be perfect. Hence they would immerse the Ganesha on the same evening along with Gauri.
Life was so simple those days and had more enjoyment. But to think of what we do today in the name of celebrations, that was sure a Eco Friendly way of celebrating Gowri Ganesh.
This year Gowri as well as Ganesha celebrations came on the same day. But mostly Gowri celebrations happen atleast a Day earlier than Ganesha Festival.
So on the Gowri celebrations day, the ladies and girls of the village would go to the river bed early morning and the Priest of the Village temple would conduct the initial pooja (Sankalpa / Sankalp as it is called). After the Sankalpa, the ladies and girls would 1st pray to the river and then from the bed of the river collect wet sand and tie it in a cloth. This would symbolise Gowri. With appropriate salutaions and pooja they would take this Gowri to their homes and worship her.
In some houses, Gowri would be made of Turmeric. They would dissolve turmeric powder and create small triangular shaped object and atoint it with red kumkum at the center.
For Ganesha, the men and boys would also go to the river bed the next day early morning. There the same Sankalpa would happen, and then they would pick up the wet clay from the river bed and each household would create Ganesha from the clay. After that they would take this to their homes as Ganesha for worship. However the interesting part was, since these Ganeshas were hand made, most of the households would keep Ganesha for just a day, so that the Clay does not dry up too much and there are no cracks. Because, in Hinduism Gods Idols have to be perfect. Hence they would immerse the Ganesha on the same evening along with Gauri.
Life was so simple those days and had more enjoyment. But to think of what we do today in the name of celebrations, that was sure a Eco Friendly way of celebrating Gowri Ganesh.
Retrospection
Coming from the world of Agile which has a simple principle of Plan -> Act -> Retrospect led me to think whether the same can be applied to our life. When we apply it in our life theres already another word called Introspection. To introspect is to look inwards and to analyze our thoughts and actions. And Retrospective is to look inwards again and to analyze our goals and actions to the work we have done or need to take upon. So per say both mean the same though albeit differently. One is more personal while the other is more professional.
Hence i have coined a term Retrospection. In order to do a retrospection the guiding questions are:
Hence i have coined a term Retrospection. In order to do a retrospection the guiding questions are:
- What is working? (select a max of 3 items in your personal or professional life)
- What is Not working? (select a max of 3 items in your personal or professional life)
- What would happen if you continue to work the way you are working?
- Which one of the 3 items which dont work you would want to change?
- If you do change whats the impact?
- Do you believe in the impact for that change?
- If YES then what steps should you take by when to see the 1st step of your impact?
- If NO then do steps 1-6 till you get step 7! :)
Whats DEV in Developer?
DEV stands for Design, Evolve and Validate. Any one who claims to be a developer needs to be doing the three things!
Any comments?
Any comments?
Remember HIM - Simple isnt it??
Today while walking to office in the morning, i was wondering what am i good at? I just listed a few things and a lot more came to my mind where i may not be even good at! As i was pondering over this, suddenly i realised i was, for that matter everyone is, good at one Universal thing. Thats remembering GOD.
I suddenly remember when at times i felt i was on the top of the world having achieved something, I remembered GOD and when i hit a nadar in my life I remembered GOD. Many a times i did remembered HIM so as to bribe him to get some material things!!
From time immemorial, Saints have been saying "Remember HIM". Infact in Marathi many saints have said UTHATHA RAM, BASTA RAM, CHALTA RAM, BOLTA RAM, KAAM KARTANA RAM (While Standing, Sitting, Walking, Talking, Working just remember RAM).
Simple isn't it??
I suddenly remember when at times i felt i was on the top of the world having achieved something, I remembered GOD and when i hit a nadar in my life I remembered GOD. Many a times i did remembered HIM so as to bribe him to get some material things!!
From time immemorial, Saints have been saying "Remember HIM". Infact in Marathi many saints have said UTHATHA RAM, BASTA RAM, CHALTA RAM, BOLTA RAM, KAAM KARTANA RAM (While Standing, Sitting, Walking, Talking, Working just remember RAM).
Simple isn't it??
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